We make apps!

Glowdot is a mobile development studio located in Santa Monica, California. We are passionate software developers working on the bleeding edge of mobile and social technology. We specialize in helping both established companies and startups bring their ideas and applications to market.

We provide our clients with a range of services, including development, design, UI/UX, and marketing strategy. We’re not just a mobile app studio — we are experienced developers and entrepreneurs who have personally launched multiple apps, with some reaching 1 million+ users, and several social networks, with one exceeding 10 billion server hits per day at its peak. Whether you are a startup, a fortune 500 enterprise or just have an idea our tech team and experienced designers and architects will help you to successfully realize and deliver your solution.

Do you have an idea? Are you a startup looking for an experienced tech and development team? Are you an enterprise looking to build B2B, customer or marketing solutions? We can help you and pride ourselves on a 100% success rate in delivering solutions on time and on budget. Reputation is everything in our industry, and few others have a track record and a client list that can match ours.

APPS FOR iOS AND ANDROID

We have designed and built hundreds of apps in the social networking, entertainment, education, business and utility categories over the past decade.

SOCIAL AND CASUAL GAMING

The only thing we love more than playing games is building them! We specialize in creating the ultimate playground through intuitive user experiences and beautiful graphics that engage, challenge and entertain the user.

INTERNET OF THINGS

As the world grows more connected, we can help you link up in the transportation, home, entertainment and health categories. Connect, gather data, analyze and control your world with smooth, intuitive user experiences.

TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

Our experience in the automotive, fitness and health sectors is vast. Our areas of expertise include voice control, video and image tech, backend infrastructure and real time solutions.

SOME OF OUR CLIENTS

CAPTURE MOVIE COMPANION

Developed and published by Glowdot for Circle of Confusion, the company behind the Walking Dead.

This movie companion app increases the thrill of watching a horror movie with the latest technology in audio recognition.

Watch the movie with the app activated to experience a new type of scare with the events in the move activating effects, video clips, vibrations and sounds on your iPhone.

FOCUS DRIVING

Utilizing advanced speech-to-text technology Focus Driving offers the best voice control technology available on the market.

Manage calls and text messaging completely by voice control with a precision that is unparalleled by any other app.

Combined with an intuitive user experience independent research by the State University of Ohio shows using Focus creates 95% less distractions that using Siri.

Powfolio FREE Comics

Powfolio is built on Glowdot’s publishing platform. No other graphic novel and comic reader on the market offers the same image quality and speed — in fact, we developed a high quality, low bandwidth, encrypted image format that allows us to securely stream comics on demand over cellular networks.

Available on both iOS and Android Powfolio also offers a full range of tools for publishers to manage and add content with advanced image processing built into the backend. Powfolio also has a full set of admin tool to handle a full review and approval process of new content and availability.

Read tens of thousands of comics for FREE!

HOW WE WORK

At Glowdot we put your development needs as our first priority.

We specialize in developing scalable, long term solutions, with efficiency built in to manage costs as your user base grows. We’re more than just developers — we are experienced entrepreneurs who have experienced and solved the major pain points on our own. We help and guide you through the technical hurdles and make sure your app is ready for both market on growth, and help you avoid the pitfalls of launching an app in a highly competitive market.

No other developer can offer the same time to market and we guarantee on time and on budget delivery.

NEWS

Glowdot is pleased to announce the launch of Scrawl for iOS. Scrawl is a location based social network based around user created places. Users can create a place anywhere in the world, and post messages to that place. […]

We're proud to announce the launch of Caremob for iOS. Caremob is the first ever real-time global movements app, allowing users to react to current events in any of six ways: protest, support, empathy, peace, [...]

ABOUT GLOWDOT

With over 30 years experience (yes, since he was a very, very young boy), Rick is one of the leading developers in the game today. Having personally built and launched hundreds of apps, platforms and solutions over his career, he has become one of the foremost experts on scalable platforms, and modular software systems.

With hundreds of millions of lines of code — in multiple languages, for multiple platforms — under his belt, no one has more experience.

Rick StromCEO, Lead Developer

Working with some of the biggest game and entertainments company in the world, Michael has led projects for everyone from small, barely funded startups to Fortune 500 companies.

Michael excels at drilling down big, bold ideas into concrete, deliverable plans, leading to successful, launched products. Michael treats every client project as if it was his own, and it shows in the work he delivers.